Customer Reviews for Quikrete 10 oz. Liquid Cement Color - Red

I mixed this in for concrete countertop, thinking I would get black or dark countertops, at best it is a battleship gray. I mixed it very heavy. It was black mixing, but when it dried it was again battleship great. I do not recommend this for concrete countertop. I paid nearly $60 for something that didn’t work at all. Just pour it and then stain it with a stain.

A little goes a long way. The color is very intense, even more intense on the brick red coloring.

I was so happy with the simplicity of this product and how well it colored my concrete. The best part is my concrete patio will never fade away and matches the color of the paint on my older patio section.

Used 2 bottles for 9, 60 pound bags of Sacrete high strength concrete as a diluted concentration intentionally. Got the nice terra cotta look but a little more muted. One can use slightly less and still get good coloring in my experience. But must follow the instructions and mix well into the water first, then add to the concrete.

I debated between this and powdered black pigment in my pursuit of a true dark black for my cement interior wall project. I mixed this with water prior then added my polymer modified cement gradually until i got a peanut butter consistency. I did a sample on some scrap drywall and at first it looked like a very dark gray. However, after a few hours my skim coat got darker and darker to a true deep black! Absolutely love!

The product works fine, except the color is all wrong. More orange in hue. Should have gotten brown.

Make a sample to check it out first. That's the only way to have any idea of how much to use per bag . If it's important...it's worth making 2 or 3 samples before choosing the right amount for your mix . If you can't do that...hire someone that can.

I purchased "buff" trying to get close to the color of sand. This did not even come close. Mixed exactly according to directions I to 2 80lb bags and the color was more terracotta than buff. Worked in the end because I was offsetting inlaid stone but not what I really wanted. Buyer beware that the color may not be true.

Bought this bottle thinking that the color would turn out just like the photo on the bottle. I used the charcoal gray with 80lb bag of concrete. As recommended, used half the bottle for each bag of concerete expecting that it would be slightly lighter than the photo on the bottle. While i was mixing it it definitely looked like the photo and gave me the impression that its going to come out great. But after two days of curing the color changed to more of a haze gray then charcoal. They need to put sample photo for each bag of concrete so the consumers know what to expect. Very disappointed in the result.

The color on the label is not the color it dries on the ground.

Easy to mix and the results are outstanding. Concrete doesn’t need to be boring.

I didn't use this for what it was designed for. I used it to add color to paint for a vivarium that will be housing lizards so I needed something non toxic. It was far better then I expected. I will definitely be using this product again.

Produced desired effect in an 'off label project.' Blended with Portland into old school 'paint solution' which, when brushed on salvaged different color cement patio pavers, did result in a uniform color. Just not as dark as expected. But the Portland also was much lighter too. Patio was low budget Liquid Cement Color brought the entire mismatched pavers into a nice uniform light charcoal color. When wet, it is exactly the darker charcoal color desired. Will try sealing with Quickrete High Gloss Concrete Sealer next. Liquid cement color did darken Portland, was easy to use, cost effective for a uniform color. Recommend Quickrete products.

Final color is indeed sand/tan buff. Do not judge the final color until a month of drying and exposure. I am very happy with this product. I used the 5 oz (half bottle) of the buff color per full bag of grey Quikrete 80 lb. mason mix and it achieves a nice buff sand / light brown color on my 1,000 ft^2 flagstone patio. I used it for mortar between my stones, underlayment of stones, and a stucco surface on stair risers. Many reviews were dissatisfied with the color but in my experience that is due to the user not tightly controlling variables and not giving it time to dry to the final color. Do not judge the final color until a month of drying and exposure. Once mixed with water, the product is orange, when mixed with grey mortar it is a chocolate brown, once dry it is a lighter brown/tan with a slight touch of pink, after a few weeks the pink fades and I was left with a perfect tan color I was wanting. I do see very slight variations between mixes, even after I refined my technique, but nothing that is a concern. It all matched well. Here are a few absolute import lessons I learned. 1) Shake the heck out of the bottle just before you pour it into the water! Once you think you have it shaken well shake it for 5 more minutes! This is so important to achieve consistent color. If you are using less than the full bottle, measure the amount out with very high precision. Don’t eyeball it!!!! You will get a different color with very slight differences in the mix ratios; but if you have shaken it enough and are accurate with measurement, it is consistent enough. 2) Differences in substrate moisture and mix finish texture will affect appearance. You can see this in my stair risers where I used the mix as a hand finished stucco. There is no difference in mix color, but the surface finish changes the trowel texture impacts appearance. Even once cured, if you increase the moisture it darkens just like other concrete structures but dries back to light tan as moisture depletes. 3) Mix the mortar/concrete mixture thoroughly. I used a mechanical concrete mixer. Mix much longer than when it first appears to be a consistent color. I did a few batches early on that I thought were good but as I went I used the mixture I could see variations develop. Upon increasing my mix time I achieve consistency. If you have much to use, mixing by hand will take a lot of effort. Rent, buy, or borrow a mechanical mixture.

Very consistent color, even between batches. Each half of the top of this firepit was a separate batch and they match very well.

Pour the dye on the cement n mix. Its your choice on how dark or light you want it but keep in mind when the cement starts to dry it tends to be lighter so you may want to make sure you put enough but i love it

Used of bottle on 3,/4 bag white cement

Adjusted amount of coloring to give a more natural stone look.

This stuff adds a nice earth tone color to my concrete. Mixing it by hand is a pain, and results in slight variation in color since I didn't control the batches exactly. If I do a project like this again, it will be using a small cement mixer and larger batches, so I use up an entire bottle at one time.

Mixed up nicely and gave me the look I was after.

This product did the job it was meant to do. My biggest problem was getting the color to match from batch to batch. I carefully measured the amount of dye and the amount of water per bag of cement each time, but the color was some what different in each batch. I finished the project with out figuring out what was causing the variations.

Easy to use. Just follow directions

This product works well. We have used Quikrete color on several projects. But I am giving this 3 stars because my bottle of Buff was orange (purchased February 2020). We both mixed it into concrete mortar for a retaining wall as well as mixed with water and painted the new gray cinder blocks and stepping stones. Either way it looks close to terra cotta. I am adding a photo of the bottles of both buff and terra cotta so you can see the similarity. I really wish it was gray or tan like it should be. It costs about $8 and doesn't go that far so for a big project it could be expensive.

Follow directions for black worked very well. Polished to 3000 grit and sealed.

Darkens concrete and mortar and mixes well but you will need more than you think. I used this to slightly darken the concrete I used in a bar top. It works well, easy to mix. Follow instructions!

Good for color cement

Not too bad. I'm more of a powder form die kinda guy but couldn't find any in a hurry so had to try it. I premixed with water (about half the amount needed for the batch) then mixed as needed. I used about 2/3 of the bottle for one bag of premixed mortar mix. Turned out great. Kinda dark grayish color. Be sure to mix it extra well or there might be some shade shift in places but even that looked neat. Left over in opened bottle dried out on me but that's understandable.

We used this to create cement pumpkins using a plastic pumpkin containers. The color is great. We used one full bottle per 80# bag of cement, which is double the recommended amount of color. It was very easy to mix with water before you mixed the cement. I had no issues with the product and am now thinking about what else I can make!

The product was easy to work with over all. The color looks more like Terra Cotta. Buff should be a beige like the photo but you can tell from my photo that this is far from beige. It is a lot more orange, like terra cotta. We mixed it with Regular Quikcrete 5000, not the counter top mixture. I would not think that grey would make it turn this color. It will still look OK with what it was made for, just would have preferred the lighter Buff color.

I used this with quick crete fast setting in a walkmaker mold. The first day it looked great, two days later we had a downpour and the walkway was cement colored. However, I put a little on a brush and painted a few sections. Three storms later those are still black.